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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General
David Tabor (1913-2005) was a highly respected and much loved
member of the Cambridge Jewish community for almost sixty years.
This book contains his Kol Nidre addresses, Bar Mitzvah talks and
funeral eulogies, as well as a selection of poems, articles and
other talks on Jewish topics.
Alejandro Botta locates the Aramaic legal formulary in context of
the Egyptian legal tradition and looks at the influence of foreign
legal practices on other formulae which do not have their roots in
Egypt.This is a study of the interrelationships between the
formulary traditions of the legal documents of the Jewish colony of
Elephantine and the legal formulary traditions of their Egyptian
counterparts.The legal documents of Elephantine have been
approached in three different ways thus far: first, comparing them
to the later Aramaic legal tradition; second, as part of a
self-contained system, and more recently from the point of view of
the Assyriological legal tradition. However, there is still a
fourth possible approach, which has long been neglected by scholars
in this field, and that is to study the Elephantine legal documents
from an Egyptological perspective. In seeking the Egyptian
parallels and antecedents to the Aramaic formulary, Botta hopes to
balance the current scholarly perspective, based mostly upon
Aramaic and Assyriological comparative studies.It was formerly the
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement.
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available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
For millennia, two biblical verses have been understood to condemn
sex between men as an act so abhorrent that it is punishable by
death. Traditionally Orthodox Jews, believing the scripture to be
the word of God, have rejected homosexuality in accordance with
this interpretation. In 1999, Rabbi Steven Greenberg challenged
this tradition when he became the first Orthodox rabbi ever to
openly declare his homosexuality.
"Wrestling with God and Men" is the product of Rabbi Greenberg's
ten-year struggle to reconcile his two warring identities. In this
compelling and groundbreaking work, Greenberg challenges long held
assumptions of scriptural interpretation and religious identity as
he marks a path that is both responsible to human realities and
deeply committed to God and Torah. Employing traditional rabbinic
resources, Greenberg presents readers with surprising biblical
interpretations of the creation story, the love of David and
Jonathan, the destruction of Sodom, and the condemning verses of
Leviticus. But Greenberg goes beyond the question of whether
homosexuality is biblically acceptable to ask how such
relationships can be sacred. In so doing, he draws on a wide array
of nonscriptural texts to introduce readers to occasions of
same-sex love in Talmudic narratives, medieval Jewish poetry and
prose, and traditional Jewish case law literature. Ultimately,
Greenberg argues that Orthodox communities must open up debate,
dialogue, and discussion--precisely the foundation upon which
Jewish law rests--to truly deal with the issue of homosexual
love.
This book will appeal not only to members of the Orthodox faith
but to all religious people struggling to resolve their belief in
thescriptures with a desire to make their communities more open and
accepting to gay and lesbian members.
In Jews, Judaism, and Success, Robert Eisen attempts to solve a
long-standing mystery that has fascinated many: How did Jews become
such a remarkably successful minority in the modern western world?
Eisen argues that Jews achieved such success because they were
unusually well-prepared for it by their religion - in particular,
Rabbinic Judaism, or the Judaism of the rabbis. Rooted in the
Talmud, this form of Judaism instilled in Jews key values that
paved the way for success in modern western society: autonomy,
freedom of thought, worldliness, and education. The book carefully
analyses the evolution of these four values over the past two
thousand years in order to demonstrate that they had a longer and
richer history in Jewish culture than in western culture. The book
thus disputes the common assumption that Rabbinic Judaism was
always an obstacle to Jews becoming modern. It demonstrates that
while modern Jews rejected aspects of Rabbinic Judaism, they also
retained some of its values, and these values in particular led to
Jewish success. Written for a broad range of readers, Jews,
Judaism, and Success provides unique insights on the meaning of
success and how it is achieved in the modern world.
The Talmudic exegesis is constructed on special hermeneutic rules
which have the logical meaning in fact. On the basis of this
circumstance it is possible to speak about a special logical
culture of the Talmud and to call the logic used there.
Based on evidence taken from a wide range of source material,
Christina Scham employs an innovative excl usive approach to the
study of Jewish scribes and their role in the Second-Temple period.
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In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a hurriedly assembled band that would play marching music to other inmates, forced labourers who left each morning and returned, exhausted and often broken, at the end of the day. While still living amid the most brutal and dehumanising of circumstances, they were also made to give weekly concerts for Nazi officers, and individual members were sometimes summoned to give solo performances of an officer's favourite piece of music. It was the only entirely female orchestra in any of the Nazi prison camps and, for almost all of the musicians chosen to take part, being in the orchestra was to save their lives.
What role could music play in a death camp? What was the effect on those women who owed their survival to their participation in a Nazi propaganda project? And how did it feel to be forced to provide solace to the perpetrators of a genocide that claimed the lives of their family and friends? In The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, award-winning historian Anne Sebba traces these tangled questions of deep moral complexity with sensitivity and care.
From Alma Rosé, the orchestra's main conductor, niece of Gustav Mahler and a formidable pre-war celebrity violinist, to Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, its teenage cellist and last surviving member, Sebba draws on meticulous archival research and exclusive first-hand accounts to tell the full and astonishing story of the orchestra, its members and the response of other prisoners for the very first time.
In this publication new light is shed on the Qumran community, its
organisational structure, its ultra conservative way of life, and
how its leaders interpreted the books of the Old Testament by
compiling their own commentaries. Emphasis is also placed on
facilitating an understanding of references in the Gospels whilst
providing an insight into a community that existed parallel to the
New Testament community, and to which some of Jesus' followers
could have belonged.
In hierdie publikasie word nuwe lig gewerp op die
Qumran-gemeenskap, die struktuur waarin hulle georganiseer was en
hul ultrakonserwatiewe leefwyse. Die wyse waarop hul leiers die
boeke van die Ou Testament geinterpreteer het, blyk uit die
kommentare wat hulle geskryf het. Hierdie publikasie help die leser
om verwysings in die evangelies beter te begryp en bied insig in 'n
gemeenskap wat in dieselfde tyd as die Nuwe-Testamentiese
gemeenskap geleef het en waaraan sommige van Jesus se volgelinge
moontlik behoort het.
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